Russian Justice: gotta love it!

[J.A. Terranson]

My guess is a couple of rounds of small arms fire into the boat before it 
departed :-)

> Pirates released after assault operation near Gulf of Aden apparently
> perished
> ) AFP/Pierre Verdy
> 12:1611/05/2010
>
> The Somali pirates who were captured in an assault operation after 
> hijacking a Russian tanker near the Gulf of Aden and then released by 
> Russian military officials have not reached the coast and have 
> apparently perished, a top-ranking source in Russia's Defense Ministry 
> told journalists on Tuesday.
>
> Russia's Moscow University tanker was hijacked last week near the Gulf 
> of Aden. Ten pirates were captured and one was killed in the assault 
> operation.
>
> The captured pirates were initially to be sent to Moscow for 
> prosecution, but Russian military officials then made the decision to 
> release them, citing the absence of a legal base to carry out 
> prosecution procedures against pirates.
>
> The pirate's boat reportedly disappeared from radars an hour after they 
> had been released by the Russian military.
>
> http://en.rian.ru/russia/20100511/158967591.html

//Alif

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